An inmate who says he was beaten and suffocated by guards after two prisoners escaped from an upstate prison in June 2015 will file a lawsuit Friday claiming Gov. Cuomo personally incited his attackers, the Daily News has learned.

Patrick Alexander, 36, says after fellow convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt cut their way out of their cells à la "The Shawshank Redemption" at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, Cuomo visited his nearby cell and taunted and cursed at him during a "photo op."

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Cuomo sarcastically told Alexander the noise from the escape "must have kept you awake with all that cutting," the lawsuit claims.

"Let me guess, you don't know f----ing nothing," the governor told him and gave him "a tough guy look," the lawsuit claims.

Alexander claims he knew nothing about the escape.

"A few hours later, Alexander was brutally interrogated, beaten and suffocated by correction officers concerned and angered that their own incompetence and corruption might be exposed," according to the lawsuit, which was obtained by The News.

Cuomo toured the Dannemora facility after the two armed-and-dangerous killers escaped in 2015. (Handout/Getty Images)

"Just hours after Gov. Cuomo had finished his show and the cameras were gone, an evening of guard-inflicted medieval barbarism ensued."

In addition to Cuomo, the lawsuit names correction officers and state troopers as defendants.

"We feel that Cuomo indirectly green-lighted correction officers to abuse and assault inmates in order to quickly identify the location of the escapees," Alexander's lawyer Leo Glickman said Thursday.

State prison officials did not respond to repeated emails and phone calls for comment.

David Sweat (l.) and Richard Matt (r.) are two inmates who escaped from an upstate New York prison. (AP)

Alexander was convicted of murder after killing a friend in a fight over a video game.

He was sentenced to life in prison in 2004, records show. He is currently housed at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill. He won't be released at least until 2023.

After Cuomo left on the day of the escapes, guards shackled Alexander and took him to a small room. Three correction officers, without required name tags, held him up by the throat and began beating him, the lawsuit claims.

One officer put a plastic bag over his head and held it around his neck, the lawsuit said.

"They continued to beat him," the lawsuit says. "They threatened that if he did anything to report the assault, it would get worse for him."

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A wide-reaching manhunt ensued for Sweat and Matt after the pair broke loose. (Mike Groll/AP)

Alexander, bruised and bleeding, was dragged back to his cell. Other inmates claimed they suffered similar treatment, the suit says.

"Their assault on Patrick Alexander, as well as on other inmates, were an attempt to deflect blame for the escape away from the incompetence and corruption of prison officials and on to the inmates," the lawsuit said.

Two days later, Alexander was interrogated again and threatened with beating. On June 10, he was shackled so tightly that his circulation was cut off. A guard slammed his head against metal bars.

Alexander was then transferred to a high-security unit at another prison, where he was locked in his cell 23 hours a day. He slept on a mattress with urine stains on it, the lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit claims he hadn't done anything to justify transfer from an honor block to solitary confinement in a cell without toilet paper. He remained there for 15 days, the lawsuit claims, as part of an "unconstitutional" effort to cover up misconduct by guards, Glickman said.

"He had an excellent disciplinary record which is why he was in the honor block," Glickman said.